Garment-fastener.



N0. 687,326, Patented NGV. 26, I9l. E. F. W. MEYER.

GARMENT FASTENER.)

(Application led Apr. 1].` 1901.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT EETcE.

ERICH F. W. MEYER, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

GARMENTA-FQASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 687,326, dated November26, 1901..

Application filed April Il, 1901.

Toxal r11/1,0m it may concern:

Be itknown that I, ERICH F. W. MEYER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Memphis, Shelby county, State of Tennessee, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Fasteners, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements ingarment-fasteners and devices for securing buttons to clothes.

My invention has forits objects to provide 'an improved form of claspingdevice whereby two garments may be secured together or a button beattached to a garment and to provide novel means for this purposewhereby the button may be attached at any part of the Vgarment withoutforming a knot or similar protuberance at the point of attachment.

With the above objects in View my invention consists in the novelconstruction and combination of parts, as hereinafter more fully setforth in the drawings, specification, and claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a section on the line I I of Fig. 5,showing the garmentfastener catching together a portion of two garments.Fig. 2 is a mechanical perspective of the garment-fastener. Fig. 3 is aside elevation showing the device as a button-fastener. Fig. 4 is asection on lthe line IV IV of Fig. 5. Fig. 5 is a plan View of thegarment-fastener. Fig. 6 is a section on the line VIVI of Fig. 5.

Referring now to the drawings, in which like numerals indicate the sam-eor like parts in all the views, the 'fastener consists of a bottom orlocking plate 1 and a top or hookcarrying plate 2, pivoted together bypins 3 on the hook-plate adapted to turn in bearings 4 on the saidlocking-plate. Hooks 5, concentric with the pins 3, are carried by theplate 2, which hooks engage and pass through the cloth of the garmentsto be fastened together and bring them up into the opening 6 through thelocking-plate 1. This opening 6 is of slightly greater length thantwicethe distance from the pins 3 to the outside of the hooks 5-that is, thelength of the opening is slightly greater than the diameter of thehooks. This opening, too, is located equally Serial No. 55,371. (Nomodel.)

on each side of or concentric with the said pins or pivots 3 and isslightly wider than the outside of the hooks, so that they may movefreely through it.

7 represents the locking-lugs on the locking-plate 1, which lugs arebent outward at the point 8, Figs. 2 and 4, to permit the entrance ofthe hook-plate 2 and then inward at 9 to engage the beveled edges lOA ofsame.

11 and 12 are ears extending out from the plates 1 and 2, respectively,and preferably brought into the same plane, each ear occupying aboutone-half of the width of the plate, the ear 11 from the bottom plate lbeing preferably at the right and the ear 12 at the lefthand side of theplate, looking from the said ears toward the hooks. While it is by nomeans necessary that these ears be brought into the same plane nor thatthey be on the sides shown, such an arrangement is much to be preferred,as it makes the disengagement of the fastener when desired much easier.

13 is a shield which extends upward from the bottom plate 1 and iscurved over to cover the points of the hooks 5.

14 is the cloth of the garments to be caught together.

I-n Fig. 3 I show my fastener as a buttonfastener, 1 and 2 being, as inthe other views, the locking and hook plates, respectively, and 15 thebutton. The dash-and-dot line 16 is an extension from the shield 13 toshow the manner in which the button clears same when it is being put onor taken off.

In Fig. 6 I show a sectional View of the fastener as it appears whenbeing fastened to or removed from the cloth. In this view the hooks 5have just been inserted through the cloth 14 and are slightly raisingthe cloth into the opening 6. As the ear 12 of the button is pushedbackward the hooks 5 enter the cloth again and pass upward through itinto the opening (5. In doing this they raise the cloth into the saidopening, as shown in Fig. 1, so that the bottoms of the cloth and of thehooks come flush. The hooks 5 are semicircular in form, with a pivot 3at the center of the circle. When, therefore, they are inserted in thecloth and the fastener is being closed, they move through the clothwithout knotting it IOO up or drawing it in any manner other than toraise it slightly into the opening 6, and since, as before stated, thebottoms of the hooks and of the cloth are flush there is no protuberanceto discommodethe wearer.

To attach the fastener, it is only necessary to take same in theposition shown in Fig. 6, insert the hooks 5 through the cloth, andclose the ears 11 and 12 together. The beveled edges 10 of the plate 2engage with the lugs 7 and hold the fastener on. To remove the fastener,the ears 11 and 12 are grasped, the ear 11 being pushed down and the ear12 up to disengage the bevel edges 10, and the plate 2 is thrown forwardand the hooks 5 withdrawn from the cloth.

Dierent arrangements of the locking-lugs and of the unlocking-ears maybe employed without departing from the spirit of my invention. More orless hooks than the three shown may be used, if desired; but I nd thatthe number shown is most satisfactory. Parallel cuts may be made forthese hooks to pass through or openings near the point and back only;but, as in the number of hooks, I find the open space shown as mostsatisfactory.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In a garment-fastener, the combination with a base-plate, bearingsextended upward at the side of said base-plate and an opening throughsaid base-plate equally disposed on each side of said bearings, of aplate pivoted in said bearings, hooks fastened to said plate concentricwith said pivots and extending through the said opening, means oflocking the plates together, and unlocking-ears `extending from saidplates, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a garment-fastener, the combination with a base-plate, bearingsextended upward at the side of said base-plate, and an opening throughsaid base-plate equally disposed on each side of said bearings, of aplate pivoted in said bearings, hooks fastened to said plate concentricwith said pivots and extending through the said opening, means oflocking the plates together, and an ear of about onehalf the width ofthe plate extending from each plate and being bent into the same plane,substantially as shown and described.

3. In a garment-fastener, the combination with a base-plate, bearingsextended upward at the side of said base-plate, an opening through saidbase-plate equally disposed on each side of said bearings, and lugsextending upward from said base-plate, of a plate pivoted in saidbearings, hooks fastened to and extending beneath said plate and throughsaid opening, said hooks being concentric with said pivots, and bevelededges toengage said lugs on said base-plate, substantially as shown anddescribed.

4. In a garment-fastener, the combination with a base-plate, bearingsextended upward at the sides f said base-plate, an opening through saidbase-plate equally disposed on each side of said bearings, and lugsextended upward from the sides of said base-plate, of a plate pivoted insaid bearings, hooks fastened to said base-plate and extending beneathsame and through the said opening, said hooks being concentric with saidpivots, beveled edges to engage with said lugs, and a lug extending fromeach of said plates to disengage said plates, substantially as shown anddescribed.

5. In a garment-fastener, the combination with a base-plate, bearingsextended upward at the sides of said base-plate, an opening through saidbase-plate equally disposed on each side of said bearings, and lugsextended upward from the sides of said base-plate, of a plate pivoted insaid bearings, hooks fastened to said base-plate and extending beneathsame and through the said opening, said hooks being concentric with saidpivots, beveled edges to engage with said lugs, and an earextendingfroni each of said plates, said ears being of one-half thewidth of the plates and having their ends broughtinto the same planesubstantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my naine to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ERICH F. WV. MEYER.

IVitnesses:

L. S. LoUDoN, J. 1I. WEATHERFORD.

